Month: January 2011

Source – indiatimes Qazis who are opposing the abolition of triple talaq are against the spirit of Islam, minister of state for external affairs MJ Akbar tells Economic Times in an interview. Excerpts: Q: Does Quran sanction triple talaq? The spirit of the holy Quran is clearly on the side of gender emancipation…The 65th sura

Israeli husbands who refuse to grant a Jewish religious divorce to their wives can now be indicted and face stiff prison sentences, the justice ministry said today. After years of rabbinate control of religious divorces, the ministry said the judiciary was going to get involved in order to “liberate” women. Hundreds or even thousands of

Source – indiatimes AGRA: In a gruesome act of domestic violence, a man along with his relatives stripped down his wife, tied her limbs and set her on fire in Agra. The incident took place in Sayeed Nagar’s Nai Basti of Tajganj area. After the incident, the accused Shanu along with relatives are on

Source – hindustantimes In 2014, the Delhi high court granted divorce to an 85-year-old man after a legal battle spanning 32 years that ruined all hopes of resuming a married life. “This is an unfortunate case where the parties have spent more than half of their (married) lives in the alleys of the courts,”